The purpose of the study was to analyze the 1973 and 1975 vocational business and office education graduates trained in the intensive office laboratory, the data processing laboratory, and the cooperative office education programs in Region VI of the State of Indiana. Tables were constructed to display aggregate and detailed data pertaining to:1. employment status of graduates2. reasons for graduate unemployment 3. length of time graduates have beenemployed4. satisfaction of the graduates withcurrent employment5. perception of the graduates of thehigh school vocational programs6. number of graduates continuing posthigh school training7. type of institutions serving thegraduates post high school trainingneeds8. occupational classification of the employed vocational business and office education graduates9. graduate participation in the Office Education Association.So that the purpose of the study could be met, all 577 vocational business and office education graduates were surveyed. The data was based on a return of 365 questionnaires or a 68.9 per cent return. A questionnaire was developed and field tested. After the graduates returned the questionnaire, questionnaires were mailed to the employers of the graduates employed in an office occupation to determine the validity of the data collected.Some of the findings are:1. Sixty-nine per cent of the graduates were employed, twenty per cent were not seeking employment, and eleven per cent were seeking employment.2. Over seventy-six per cent of the employed graduates were employed in office occupations and fifty-three per cent were still employed in the first employment position.3. Fifty-four per cent of the employed graduates were employed within the same geographic area where the vocational training was provided and forty-six per cent had been employed longer than thirteen months.4. Seventy-one per cent of the unemployed graduates had been employed since graduation.5. Twenty per cent of the employed cooperative office education graduates and twenty per cent of the intensive office education graduates were employed as secretaries.6. Twelve per cent of the data processing graduates were employed as computer operators and twelve per cent as key punch operators.7. Fifteen per cent of the employed graduates and forty-three per cent of the unemployed graduates were enrolled in post high school training.Based on the data, some of the conclusions are:1. The vocational programs currently underway must be meeting the needs of the graduates since more than ninety per cent of all vocational business and office education graduates within Region VI have been employed.2. Vocational programs are training students for employment positions which meet the desires of graduates since more than seventy-five per cent of the respondents working in office occupations were satisfied with the current employment position.3. The vocational programs must be providing the necessary training within the current vocational business and office education programs since more than ninety per cent of the graduates working in office positions indicated that they were adequately prepared for the position.Following are some of the recommendations of the study:1. A comprehensive longitudinal follow-up study should be conducted on the vocational graduates that follows the progression of the graduatesin and out of the labor market and post-secondary education institutions.2. Follow-up studies should be conducted every one and three years and a standard questionnaire should be adopted by the Indiana State Department of Public Instruction.3. A follow-up study should be conducted with the employers of the vocational graduates to ascertain the extent of employer satisfaction with the job competence and performance of the graduates.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/175792 |
| Date | January 1976 |
| Creators | Dawson, Keith F. |
| Contributors | Snyder, Jack F. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | vii, 127 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
| Coverage | n-us-in |
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